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Date Fields

stefanshotton
in Calculation Engine (Define Fields)

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I need to know is there a way that ican force a user to enter a strict 8 digit date field ie. DD/MM/YYYY.

I have to export data to other programs that use a strict 2 digit date and 2 digit month field so would be very useful.

You shouldn't be forcing your users to enter anything beyond what Filemaker considers a valid date entry. If you need to export your dates as dd/mm/yyyy, make a calculation field (result is text) =

Right ( "00" & Day ( Datefield ) ; 2 ) & "/" & Right ( "00" & Month ( Datefield ) ; 2 ) & "/" & Year ( Datefield )

and export that instead.

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